6. AND ANOTHER UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENON A Regina woman living in the South end woke to find a hay bale on her front lawn! There’s no explanation! Be sure to click through the photos for different vantage points on the bale. Har har!

The different vantage points really capture… something! On a completely unrelated note, is there some kind of long German word that describes the odd mix of loving affection and frustrated despair one can feel about a city?

Whatever; I’m just looking forward to the many letters to the editor in tomorrow’s L-P re: the difference between hay and straw.

Personally, I’d love it if someone left a hay bale in my front yard. I’d just keep it there. They’re kind of beautiful. And they smell great as well.

I could go for a miniature nazca thingy too, come to think of it.

JB, if there is such a word (and there probably is), I don’t know it. I’ll ask my Dad.

Stephen, this isn’t like that big rock someone left in their ex’s yard a few months back (perhaps you’re confusing the two). I heard this woman being interviewed on CBC’s Afternoon Edition and she said that her husband took the bale away. Actually she described how he “lifted it with one hand and put in the back of his truck”. You could tell by her tone of voice that she still found him attractive. I didn’t sense a rift, anyway.